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In article <2c906808-348a-4aac-8fa7-5a8e48679f08@googlegroups.com>,
bluesbrothers16@gmail.com wrote:

> On Thursday, January 17, 2013 2:25:44 PM UTC-6, Helpful Harry wrote:
> > In article <27499df1-fa8a-4d5f-99c8-104a4cc4938a@googlegroups.com>,
> >
> > There is evidently a plug-in for InDesign to create charts, but it's 
> > aimed at professional print / design companies and costs a whopping 
> > US$3,000!!
> 
> Thanks again.  I understand where you're coming from with the skipping of 
> illustrator.  Even with the colors, I can make swatched in ID.  

You can't change the colours of an imported chart that in InDesign. You
would have to go back to Excel or Illustrator and then create a new PDF,
which InDesign would automatically re-link to.



> We've never used excel or powerpoint to feed our ID project charts 
> before so i'm not sure if I can recreate the charts I need to.  I think 
> I can and then use the swatches to get teh color right.

If you're recreating the charts in InDesign you can use any colour from
the Swatch Palette. I don't know how easy it is to recreate pie charts in
the newer versions of InDesign, but other types are easy, if fiddly, to
do. Of course they are manually created, so don't use the source data.



> Can you specify the $3k tool? or send me the information for it?  If it 
> populates precreated charts, then it would be worth it for us to purchase.

I don't know much about it (it turned up in a quick Google search), but
the US$3000 software is called uChart by XMPie. It does bar charts, area
charts and line charts, as well as pie charts, using dynamic data from
other files (not sure if those are Excel or plain text). The website is
<http://www.xmpie.com/uchart>. I've had a quick look and it appears to be
one of the modules in a larger piece of software available for Mac and PC,
which explains why it costs so much.

Helpful Harry  :o)